Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
HONORE DE BALZACVice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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